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by rz2k 11y ago
We know of examples where companies have wildly exceeded their hype, even though we later find out that the hype was unjustified at the time. There are also examples where it can be argued that shareholders did so well because founders main
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by rz2k 11y ago
And also Zyklon which would become Zyklon B when the warning eye irritant was removed to make it a better weapon for murdering people. There was a RadioLab[1] episode that talked about how it was eventually used on some of his own relatives
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by rz2k 11y ago
Hmm: >“You acted contrary to department policy when you did not use the single assigned textbook for MATH 250B sections,” the school reprimand states. Universities may be large institutions that require many decisions to be put on autopi
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by rz2k 11y ago
That looks pretty good, but I don't understand why I can't restrict location services to when the app is in the foreground.
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by rz2k 11y ago
That doesn't sound very left to me. It sounds like cheering brutality for the sake of brutality unless she is specifically interested in the relative prestige among the most powerful nations on the planet. Reactions to the attacks, oft
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by rz2k 11y ago
And, Edward R. Murrow died of lung cancer a couple days short of his 57th birthday in 1965 — this was only a few months before Oppenheimer's throat cancer diagnosis.
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by rz2k 11y ago
One counter point is the "Python Paradox"[1], though I don't know how well that conjecture was ever actually supported. However, isn't the Elixir/OTP ecosphere considered relatively practical and tested, rather than
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by rz2k 11y ago
I suspect that in the same way that people think the most sacred buildings in their culture should be built out of wood or stone depends on their specific culture, rectangular constructions emerge from technological constraints rather than
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by rz2k 11y ago
I think of utility as the first principle of economics. Is your criticism that it can be used to explain a person chooses to overdose on heroin as much as why someone donates their time to charity? But couldn't the same be said of biol
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by rz2k 11y ago
I think we are talking about overhearing communication between aliens speaking the same "language", where compression makes even more sense over a difficult channel. Consider data transmitted from spacecraft in our own solar syste
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by rz2k 11y ago
I wonder if the right vocabulary is to talk about local optima, even though that isn't really the problem with being incrementalist as a rule. Or maybe once upon a time "paradigm shift", also not the right concept. Anyway, my
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by rz2k 11y ago
On one hand it is an interesting statement about the amount of work required to accomplish something that is impressive to an outsider who doesn't understand the steps, but really these people really are somewhat unique merely by being
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by rz2k 11y ago
Yes, being the only country with an unknown number of warheads, plus an undamaged domestic industrial base had a lot to do with it, too. My point being that his description of the moral calculus for the decision has little to do with any sc
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by rz2k 11y ago
The cost in Iraqi lives and destruction has probably been a few times greater than that from the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it would have been quicker. Whether it would have lead to functioning government that wasn't expansion
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by rz2k 11y ago
The major premise of the statement, that war was a given, is effectively 'unassailable' in this case, but it isn't difficult to imagine such a calculus being abused. I think it was especially a danger when one compares the ap
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by rz2k 11y ago
What is the value of this number? I can see how some research into operations would identify the cost incurred by holding a certain value of inventory, but decreasing inventory costs by selling at a discount without recognizing that decreas
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by rz2k 11y ago
I think there's a quasi-cynical opportunity in developing any category of product that is regularly acquired then quietly allowed to die. For example, it seems like not having a lot of people using a client like Sparrow was worth more
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by rz2k 11y ago
I've found Simplenote on the iPad and Notational Velocity or nvALT on a Mac to be a really lightweight and quick workflow. Plus, there's the added benefit of it all being plain text, whereas Evernote always seems to make guesses a
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by rz2k 11y ago
At the very least keep it to multiples of three, as in 150e6 or 150 * 10^6! Though a very simple 150 million is easy to think of in terms of erasing past donations that sounded impressive.
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by rz2k 11y ago
I was actually thinking of the evidence of tectonic forces, too. Like a long inhale and exhale collected by the mass of the body and realized at the borders of geologic transformation every plutonic year? There's something beautiful ab
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by rz2k 11y ago
There is a way to see it as different. Ideally people like entrepreneurship because you succeed or fail because your idea and execution meet the market's needs. That's better than getting paid on the basis of your own effort or di
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by rz2k 11y ago
That's an interesting idea. On one hand I would think that something intelligent living with that little energy available per square meter would operate very slowly, such that we could communicate with it like a correspondence chess ga
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by rz2k 11y ago
That's pretty interesting in the context of sailing. It doesn't seem to take much time at all for people to adjust between a tiller and a wheel, or standing behind or in front of a wheel. I think a lot of that has to do with sensi
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by rz2k 11y ago
While I appreciate not everyone is the same, I am not fond of the idea that young students are always more interested in practical applications than they are intellectually curious. Making things blow up, or controlling something with a few
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by rz2k 11y ago
I believe that higher currents are negotiated with digital signalling. Does that allow for the two ends talk to each other to determine the performance of a cable between them? The Apple lightning cables themselves include a chip. Anyway, a
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by rz2k 11y ago
Probably she is understating the role of acetaminophen in his death. But, I get the impression that she is also understating the magnitude of verbal abuse she experienced, not caused by the acetaminophen. We can also guess that while he may
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by rz2k 11y ago
Not from the perspective of a type professional, but Tahoma is still very readable down to 8 point, for when you want to see a lot of cells at the same time. I don't find that monospacing is any help in spreadsheets.
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by rz2k 11y ago
I thought they got better compared to the first few classes, but they do really revolve around R. For a rigorous treatment of the subject matter, the MITx course on Probability is really good. [1] You could also take a look at the two JHU &
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by rz2k 11y ago
The customer account statements for Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities were notoriously old fashioned computer printouts. [1][2] There was some coverage with a former client, I can't find now, where he even talked about the appeara
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by rz2k 11y ago
I have taken the same classes, and they get much more interesting. Chances are that you could complete the work for the first courses in a couple hours without the lectures, or maybe just skimming the notes. I recommend doing that quickly a

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